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• ISBN: 0849320224 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780849320224 (alk. paper)
• Physical Description: 601 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC, Taylor & Francis, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

I: Locomotion and energetics -- Locomotion / George V. Lauder -- Feeding and nutrition / Kendall D. Clements and David Raubenheimer -- II: Gas exchange and transport -- Aquatic and aerial respiration / Jeffrey B. Graham -- The cardiovascular system / Kenneth R. Olson and Anthony P. Farrell -- Gas transport / Mikko Nikinmaa -- III: Homeostasis and reproduction -- Ion transport, osmoregulation, and acid-base balance / William S. Marshall and Martin Grosell -- Temperature / Elizabeth L. Crockett and Richard L. Londraville -- Endocrinology / Yoshio Takei and Christopher A. Loretz -- Stress in fishes / George K. Iwama, Luis O.B. Afonso, and Mathilakath M. Vijayan -- Reproduction / Zvi Yaron and Berta Sivan -- IV: Neurophysiology -- Hearing and mechanoreception / Dennis M. Higgs, Zhongmin Lu, and David A. Mann -- Electroreception and electrogenesis / James S. Albert and William G.R. Crampton -- Chemoreception / William C. Michel -- V: New technologies -- Mutagenesis: insights from A-transgenic medaka / Richard N. Winn -- Functional genomics in fishes: insights into physiological complexity / Marjorie F. Oleksiak and Douglas L. Crawford -- Fish cell culture and stem cells / David W. Barnes and Paul Collodi.

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Subject:

Fishes > Physiology.

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• Marine biology series
• CRC marine biology series.